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Martinha, Cristiana – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2011
The objective of this paper is to present certain results of my doctoral research, concerning the application of "Competence Pedagogy" in the teaching of geography in Portugal, particularly an analysis of Portuguese geography textbooks in order to improve our understanding of how they incorporate, or do not incorporate, this new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Geography Instruction, Textbooks
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Albuquerque, Pitombo Maiana; de Almeida, Ana Maria Rocha; El-Hani, Nino Charbel – Science Education International, 2008
Despite being a landmark of 20th century biology, the "classical molecular gene concept," according to which a gene is a stretch of DNA encoding a functional product, which may be a single polypeptide or RNA molecule, has been recently challenged by a series of findings (e.g., split genes, alternative splicing, overlapping and nested…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Textbooks, Molecular Biology, Cytology
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Leite, Laurinda – European Journal of Teacher Education, 1999
Investigated how 11 9th-grade Portuguese physics textbooks dealt with heat and temperature and whether they were adequate information sources for students. Examination of ideas (which included correctness of concepts and arguments, global teaching approach, and learning activities) indicated that most of the textbooks were not consistent with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Heat, Science Education